Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Deep sea expedition off Caribbean islands captured images of unique corals sponges fish species never before documented ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Researchers uncovered hundreds of previously unknown deep-sea species, giving the scientific community a better idea of what ...

Scientists found worms living inside a glass sponge castle - and that's just one of 38 new species.

Deep-sea explorers found two new worm species living inside a “glass sponge” off Japan. The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census expedition launched in June 2025 with the Japan Agency for ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

They say just 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been directly observed, representing a speck on our planet that’s just larger than Rhode Island. It’s hardly surprising, then, that when we do take a ...

A surprising mystery has been uncovered off the coastlines of Britain’s Caribbean territories. The first expedition revealed an underwater mountain range, a massive blue hole, and coral ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though covering 70% of the Earth’s surface, oceans are poorly understood realms of ...

Researchers aboard a deep-sea submarine spotted a new species on a volcanic ledge off the coast of Japan. Chen C, Tsuda M, Ishitani Y (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution About 300 miles off the coast ...